Cuff-button.



R. FAULKNER.

CUFF BUTTON.

APPLICATION TILED APR.8, 1911.

1,070,791. Patented Aug. 19, 1913.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cO., WASHINGTON, D. c.

llTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSELL FAULKNER, OF EDNA, KANSAS.

CUFF-BUTTON.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RUSSELL FAULKNER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Edna, in the county of Labetteand State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Buttons, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to cuff buttons and has for an object to provide adevice for removably connecting the ends of a cuff and adapted topresent a neat and effective appearance.

For the purpose mentioned, use is made of an integral piece of flexiblematerial bent in a U-shaped form and provided with knobs at the outerend thereof, said U- shaped piece of material being adapted to engagethe ends of a cuff through holes therein with one of the mentioned knobsengaging the outer surfaces of the cuff at each of the ends thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings constituting a partof this specification, in which similar characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which Figure l is a sideelevation showing my device attached thereto, to connect the ends of thecuff. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my cuff button.

Referring more particularly to the views I provide an integral piece ofmaterial 10 bent in a U-shaped form to constitute shanks 11 having knobs12 integrally formed on the outer ends thereof. The piece of material10, at the base of the U- shaped form is provided with an enlargedportion 13 constituting an apex for the shanks 11, a binding neckagainst the edges of the buttonholes of a cuff, and a sloping wedge toimpel the ends of a cuff outward and in frictional engagement with theshanks 11, so that said button-device 10 is locked from play and fromdisplacement.

In the application of my device to a cuff one of the shanks 11 is passedthrough the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 8, 1911.

Patented Aug. 19,1913.

Serial No. 619,754.

opening in one end of the cufi, the said cuff being previously bent inthe usual shape and the mentioned shank after being passed through thefirst opening in the cuff as mentioned is passed through the secondopening in the other end of the cuff, thus relatively connecting theends of the cuff with one of the shanks 11 disposed to ex tend outwardlyfrom each of the openings in the cuff and adapted to lie against theouter surface of the cuff as shown in Fig. 1.

It will be understood that my device can be constructed of anypreferable material and the knobs 12 can be fashioned in artisticdesigns and shapes.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new, is

1. A cuff-button comprising an integral and flexible body bentsubstantially U- shaped and having an enlarged neck portion with slopingedges forming a doubleended wedge, two parallel and constricted shankportions, each extended from one of the ends of said neck-portion, andspherical knobs upon the ends of said shank portions, said knobs adaptedto bind said cuff-button from displacement from a cuff and from lateralplay, and said wedge-like neck portion adapted to lock against the edgesof a button-hole or to impel the sides of a cufi outward and intofrictional contact with the said shanks; as and for the purposespecified.

2. In a device of the character described, a substantially U-shaped cuffbut-ton having a substantially double wedge-shaped neck portion soconstructed as to either bind against the edges of a but-ton hole or toimpel the ends of a cuff outward upon slippage or release from theaforesaid binding.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RUSSELL FAULKNER.

\Vitnesses:

D. S. SHOCK, H. JOHNSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

